The goal of our work is to build rural community resiliency through relationships. The 2022 symposium aims to work with a learning community in exploring and understanding the resiliency and transformation of rural communities from several perspectives, including physicians, community, and Indigenous Peoples.<\/p>\n
Join us virtually on Zoom for two half-days to explore rural community resiliency from a plurality of perspectives, discussing ways to apply knowledge and brainstorming opportunities to generate new knowledge and extend the research.<\/p>\n
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Dr. Stefan Grzybowski\u2019s lifelong clinical focus has been on working with vulnerable populations in diverse settings, including in Haida Gwaii (1983 to 1994), inner-city Vancouver (1995 to 2006), and then in remote Northern Communities as a rural locum. In his early years of rural clinical experience, he recognized the need for research addressing the effectiveness and sustainability of rural health care services. After completing a Master\u2019s degree, he and his family relocated to Vancouver in mid-career, and he served the DFP in the position of Director of Research for 10 years. He has been an academic professor in the Department of Family Practice at UBC since July 2006. He has more than 70 peer-reviewed publications and has been PI and Co-PI on a number of CIHR grants. Dr. Grzybowski has an abiding focus on rural health services research and building research capacity, both of which are exercised through his current position as Co-Director of the Centre for Rural Health Research. His current research focuses on advancing rural community resilience to climate change and ecosystem disruption and developing rural BC health services catchment maps.<\/p>\n